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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business

firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company. Furthermore, as production shifts to Asia and more and more U.S.

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How To Get The Attention Of Top Executives: The “Sidestep” Method

Tsavo Neal

Instead, they rely on a small army of advisors who provide specialized knowledge based on their qualifications, experience, and skills. Let’s say, for example, that you’re a consultant who wants to help renewable-energy companies create effective business plans – and by “effective” we mean “able to help raise financing.”.

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Choosing Management Consulting as a Career

Tom Spencer

Consulting is a knowledge-based industry. Other individuals have based their consulting career choice on the degree they studied, wanting to align the skills learnt through their qualification with a specific career path. Many consultants have a commerce (business, finance, and economics), engineering or technology background.

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Deep Dive into Customer Segmentation (Part 1 of 2)

Tom Spencer

Attitudes toward the brand, the way they use it, and their knowledge base are all examples of behavioral segmentation. For example, the finance team is able to confirm whether new customer growth has increased in the target segments. Segmentation should be based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative data.

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How the Data That Internet Companies Collect Can Be Used for the Public Good

Harvard Business

As a consequence, the process of establishing data collaboratives and leveraging privately held data for evidence-based policy making and service delivery is onerous, generally one-off, not informed by best practices or any shared knowledge base, and prone to dissolution when the champions involved move on to other functions.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business

Start a knowledge base. It’s time to dedicate a full-time person to building your knowledge base and providing customer education support. Strategies like outsourcing, hiring lower-cost people, or exotic employment offer tempting cost savings to the finance-minded folks. Pick your channels deliberately.

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The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople

Harvard Business

Technical skills are typically required to implement a new business idea, while business skills are required for conducting market research and finding a promising niche or for securing financing during research and development stages.